Loading attachment for wagons.



PATENTED NOV. 19, 1907.

No. l871,601.

E. LAUPPE. LOADING ATTACHMENT FOR WAGONS.

APPLIoATloN FILED JULY 5, 1907.

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LOADING ATTACHMENT FOR WAGONS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1907.

Application filed July 5| 1907. Serial NO. 382.379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD LAUPPE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Antelope, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Loading Attachment for vWagons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, novel device that may be removably attached upon the rear end of a freight wagon, and afford means for utilizing horse power for loading bales of hay or other material on the wagon, and thus dispense largely with manual labor for such a purpose.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawin s forming a part of thisspecilication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side view of the improved loading device removably connected with a wagon at its rear end, showing a bale of hay in position for elevation and deposit on the wagon bed; 1 Fig. 2 is a similar view, but showing the operation of the device for loading a plurality of bales on the wagon bed; Fig. 3 is a rear end elevation of the improved loading device, arranged as repre sented in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a detached plan view of a pair of hinges that are details of the invention. The loading device may be connected with freight wagons of different capacities, it being mainly essential that the wagon have a flat bottom or bed for supporting a load.

The improvement comprises a rectangular frame, preferably consisting of two side bars 5, 5, that are held spaced apart in parallel planes by two cross bars 5a, 5P affixed thereon near the ends of the side bars, as shown in Fig. 3. A guide trough G, preferably formed of an angle iron bar, is secured by one end upon the cross bar 5b at the center of said'cross bar. The guide trough 6 is bent to give it arcuate form, and is held braced in position centrally on the frame by the preferably angle iron brace bars 7, 7, S, 8, and 9, 9, that are disposed as shown in Fig. 3. The braces 7 are forwardly and diagonally extended from the side bars 5, 5, near the longitudinal centers of the latter, toward and thence trend toward the upper end of the trough 6, whereon their remaining ends are oppositely secured.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the braces S and 9, are so proportioned in length, that they hold the arcuate guide trough projected away from the normally upper end of the frame and cross bar 5a thereon. The frame side bars 5, 5, at their ends nearest to the top cross bar 5a, are hinged upon corresponding sidebars 10n on the body of a wagon 10, this hinged connection permitting the completed loading attachment to be rocked above and below the horizontal plane of the bottom of the wagon 10.

Preferably the pair of hinges employed each consist of two elongated leaves 11, 11, each having a tubulate end 11, the transverse holes therein being of equal diameter. The hinge leaves 11 are detachably connected by a pintle rod 11", as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, s0 that the two members of each hinge may be readily detached when this is desired, by ren inoval of the pintle rod. I

Two corresponding hinge leaves 11 of the two similar hinges, are secured upon thc side bars 10"L of the wagon 10, at their rear ends, and the other hinge leaves are affixed upon the side bars 5, 5, of the loader 'frame at their normally upper ends, and are so spaced apart that these leaves may be introduced between the other pair of hinge leaves 11, adjacent thereto, so that the tubulate ends l1a on the hinge leaves, may all be alined for connection with the pintle rod 11b, as before mentioned.

The wagon 10 of common construction and shown partially in the drawings, is supported for progressive movement at its rear end by an axle 10b and wheels 10C. A {iexible connection, such as a chain 12, is attached by one end upon the axle 10b and is extended thence toward the upper end of the guide trough 6, whereon said chain or rope is attached at such a distance from the axle, that the section 12a of the chain 12, between the axle and guide trough, will become taut when the loader frame is disposed so as to giveit an erect position, as is clearly shown 1n Fig. 2.

Upon the ends of each of the side bars 5, 5, that are adjacent to the cross bar 5b, a stout pin or spike a, is erected, which pins serve as abutments, to prevent a load from' slipping Off of the yloader frame. The chain 12 is extended a proper length from the loader frame, and upon its free end is attached a cross bar 12b or' the like, for connection therewith of a draft animal.

It is to be noted that the diagonal arrangement of the angleiron brace bars as described, affords rigid support for the loader frame, and while it is very light, is capable of resisting heavy load strain in every direction, which is essential for durability and efliciency.

In service the wheels 10C are temporarily blocked as at b, which prevents a rearward movement of the wagon. If hay, straw, or other material in bales, such as A, is to be loaded upon a wagon 10, this is readily accomplished by use of the improvement as follows:

The loader frame is first connected to the wagon bythe hinges as before explained, and disposed in an inclinedv position, extending from the hinged end to the ground whereon thelower end of said frame rests. The chain 12` is stretched upon the ground by the draft animal attached thereto, so that it will be disposed lengthwise in the channel of the guide trough 6, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. A bale A is now rolled upon the end of the loader frame that rests upon the ground, and disposed transversely in contact with the abutment pins a. The chain 1.2 is now drawn upon by the attached animal, not shown, which will pull upon the chain where it 1s attached to the. end of the guide trough 6, and thus cause the loader frame and bale thereon to be rocked upward into an erect position, the impetus causing the bale to be discharged upon the bed of the wagon, the portion 12a of the chain preventing the trame from tipping forwardly. I The loader frame may be lowered quickly by slackening -the chain 12.ar id the operation repeated, each bale as it is loaded being piled up as represented in Figs. 2 and 3, until a full load is placed upon the bed of the wagon.

'It will be evident that by an employment of the improved loading device, the work of loading bales of any material may be greatly expedited, and manual labor be, to a large extent, dispensed with, as but little exertion is necessary to arrange the bales in tiers upon the wagon after they are hoisted and deposited thereupon.

The entire device may be readily detached from the wagon by separation of the hinged connection and release lof theend of the chain 12 from the axle 10b, and, if desired, hinge leaves on another wagon that'mate those on the loader frame, may be connected with the latter and receive a load of baled material, as liereinbefore explained.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A bale loader, comprising a rectangular frame, a guide trough' thereon, and braces extending from the sides of the frame into engagement with the guide trough, in combination with a wagon, whcreon the'ends of the frame are hinged, and a 'flexible connection extended from the wagon rearwardly through the guide trough.

2. A bale loader, comprising a rectangular frame formed of two side bars, and two cross bars at the respective ends of said side bars, a bent guide trough parallel with the side bars and centrally secured by one end on a respective cross bar, said guide trough being spaced from the other cross bar, and a plurality of braces diagonally extended from the frame side bars into engagement with the guide trough, in combination with a.

wagon, hinges detachably connecting the sides of the wagon with the respectiveends of the side bars, and a flexible connection secured by one end on the wagon and thence extended rearwardly through the trough.

3. A bale loader, comprising a rectangular' frame formed of two side bars, and two cross, bars at the respective ends of said side bars, an angle iron guide trough having arcuate form, held parallel with the side bars and centrally onone, of said cross bars, and a plurality of brace bars extended from opposite sides of the guide trough diagonally and secured by their outer ends on the frame side bars, whereby the other end of the guide trough is spaced from the remaining cross bar, in combination with a wagon, separable hinges secured on the sides of the wagon and on the ends of the frame side bars, a flexible connection extended from the lrear axle of the Wagon into connection with lone end of the guide'trough and thence {through said trough, the remaining end of fthe iiexible connection having means for connecting a draft animal therewith.

ln testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specificationin the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD LAUPPE.

Witnesses:

J. D. LAUPPE, W. C. LEwIs. 

